Editing South Australia (section)

=== Religion ===
At the [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]], overall 53.9% of responses identified some variant of [[Christianity]]. 9% of respondents chose not to state a religion. The most commonly nominated responses were [[Irreligion|'No Religion']] (35.4%), [[Roman Catholic|Catholicism]] (18%), [[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglicanism]] (10%) and [[Uniting Church in Australia|Uniting Church]] (7.1%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au"/><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au"/>

South Australia was the first Australian colony not to have an official state religion,<ref name="religion beginnings">{{cite web|url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1452|title=Religion : Beginnings|access-date=14 October 2022|website=SA Memory|date=23 May 2006 }}</ref> and the colony became attractive to people who had experienced religious discrimination, including [[Methodism|Methodists]] and [[Unitarianism|Unitarians]]. South Australia also had thousands of [[Prussia]]n [[Old Lutherans|Old Lutheran]] immigrants, some of whom established their own form of Lutheranism. As a result, the [[Lutheran Church of Australia]] remains separate from the German Lutheran church to this day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1455|title=Religion : Diversity|access-date=14 October 2022|website=SA Memory|date=7 December 2005 }}</ref> South Australia was the location of the first Muslim mosque in Australia.<ref name="religion beginnings"/>

Most of the state's original colonists were Christian, but of many denominations, most with their own meeting place in the city square. Adelaide has been known as the "City of Churches" since at least 1868.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158931161 |title=The Week's News |newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]] |volume=XXVI |issue=1389 |location=South Australia |date=16 May 1868 |access-date=12 April 2023 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} Earlier instances may be found without capital "C"s.</ref> Some of the oldest remaining buildings in the city are churches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1454|title=Religion : City of churches|access-date=14 October 2022|website=SA Memory|date=7 December 2005 }}</ref>